{48} Nothing comes easy, Political Version

Is anyone really surprised about Wasserman Schultz being picked up by HRC’s campaign? Really? What rock have you been under?

Yes, it demonstrates a profound tone-deafness to the issues that progressives have brought to the election; Yes, it shows that the crony system is “fixed” and that the Dem Party is ethically bankrupt; Yes, the whole system is cronk. I mean, WTF, have you been paying attention? At all?

We definitely need a valid, challenging third party option here in the USA. But here’s the thing: this kind of change needs to start from the ground up, and it hasn’t happened. No, it hasn’t. A year of campaigning for Bernie Sanders does not fit the bill.

If it had happened, it would have started 16 years ago and we’d be looking at a three-party system now. The 2000 election should have been a wakeup call to all of us, but it wasn’t — people slunk back to their corners and pouted (me included). Then 9/11 and, well, the progressive agenda went on standby. Even the Occupy Movement didn’t budge the liberal elite, who thought they could initiate change without getting their hands dirty.

Can we not do that again, please?

It’s time for the adults here to put on their big-girl panties, vote for HRC in November for the sole purpose of keeping Trump from violently hurtling us into the 1950s, and then build up a real third party threat over the next decade.

If you think that allowing Trump to win will kick-start that plan, you’re wrong, because we’ll be so busy fighting off the plague of Republican fascist family values that we won’t have time to build a coalition of progressives. No, you aren’t going to get your glorious revolution if Trump wins, you will just get a lot of exhausted progressives fighting new laws and, for minorities and women and immigrants, fighting for their lives.

A successful third party needs to be a coalition of Black Lives Matter, feminists, unions, Occupy Wall Street, immigrants, and the working poor (black AND white, yes, I mean rural white folk); it needs to be welcoming of all religions; it needs passion and propaganda and a platform.

We got a bit of a start of that with Sanders’ campaign. If we can’t keep it rolling until it snowballs into something real and valid, then when the next two-party, “lesser of two evils” vote occurs we’ve (still) got no one to blame but ourselves.